The National Archives, U.K., faces a number of information processing challenges relating to the volume, variety and velocity of the data it handles, as well as its need to ensure value and veracity. This feature highlights some of these challenges as well as some of the work it is undertaking to address them.
Heritage objects are continually at risk from the harmful agents of deterioration, and these risks may be exacerbated by climate change [2]. Therefore, heritage institutions need to adopt a position of climate resilience; they must “anticipate, absorb, and adapt” to the effects of climate change to preserve cultural heritage for future generations [10]. One ...
This article highlights some of Katalin Marton’s main contributions to rate distortion theory, probability theory, and multiuser information theory and their lasting impact on the work of many other researchers.
Traditional communication system design has always been based on the paradigm of first establishing a mathematical model of the communication channel, then designing and optimizing the system according to the model. The advent of modern machine learning techniques, specifically deep neural networks, has opened up opportunities for data-driven system design a...
This is the first of a series of interviews, named Friends in Comment, where I share conversations with friends and colleagues in areas related to ours. This first interview is with Regina Barzilay. Regina is currently [...]
